Thanx.

AFAIK you're stuck with zombies until reboot.

Tristan.

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  Tristan Quaife <ggqua...@swansea.ac.uk> wrote:

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See iten 1.6 (How do I get rid of zombie processes?)

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  Vivek V <viv...@miel.mot.com> wrote:

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You can't kill a zombie *because it's already dead.*  A
zombie is a dead process that is waiting for its parent
process to "reap" it (perform some variant of wait() to
collect its return code).  It is only an entry in the
process table with a return code, nothing else.  If
you want to get it out of the process table (and off
your ps listings), kill the zombie's parent.  PID 1
(init) will become the zombie's new parent, and init
automatically reaps all its dead children.  End of
zombie.

                        Chris Mattern